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Polypoid melanoma

medical condition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ7226854 ↗
Source-derived summary

Polypoid melanoma is a rare cutaneous condition, a virulent variant of nodular melanoma. Polypoid melanoma is a subtype of nodular melanoma, the most aggressive form of melanoma (a skin cancer).

Signs and symptoms

Polypoid melanoma is distinguished by a profile that resembles cauliflower and an uneven surface.

Treatment

Therapies for metastatic melanoma include the biological immunotherapy agents ipilimumab, pembrolizumab, and nivolumab; BRAF inhibitors, such as vemurafenib and dabrafenib; and an MEK inhibitor trametinib.

See also

Melanoma

List of cutaneous conditions

References

Further reading

Hikawa, Renato Shintani; Kanehisa, Eliza Sayuri; Enokihara, Mílvia Maria Simões e Silva; Enokihara, Mauro Yoshiaki; Hirata, Sérgio Henrique (2014). "Polypoid melanoma and superficial spreading melanoma different subtypes in the same lesion". Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia. 89 (4). FapUNIFESP (SciELO): 666–668. doi:10.1590/abd1806-4841.20142802.

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“Polypoid melanoma” enters the record as medical condition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Polypoid, melanoma and medical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Polypoid melanoma” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.